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Do you let your kids use hand sanitizer?

Today is doing a story on it this morning, and how the over-cleanliness people are promoting (including anti-bacterial everything) is creating superbugs and impairing children's immune systems. I have a fight every new school year with DS's teachers, explaining that I don't want him using it, and that he knows how to wash his hands. His school supply list includes sanitizer for the class every year, and we never send it.

Sometimes. For example, if we're at the park, and we're having lunch after they've been playing, I have some hand sanitizer in the car for them to use. There's no bathrooms at the parks we like the most, and my kids like to play with lizards, so I want their hands clean before they pick up a sandwich. But in general, they just use soap and water. To me, hand sanitizer is for those rare instances when soap and water isn't an option.

I do but, we don't go overboard. I send it to school but, unless my kids have been at a petting zoo or something like that, we don't use it. I don't walk around with it or make sure everything is sanitized. If I'm worried about germs, I'll have my kids wash their hands.

If there's a public restroom that does not have proper hand-washing accommodations (parks, etc) then we use sanitizer. At our local zoo's main restroom they have two sinks to several stalls and you always have a line at the sinks and then a longer line at the hand dryers, so more often than not I'll just squirt some sanitizer on our hands and we're out the door. Also at things like petting zoos or if DD is around a friend that is coughing all over her (like yesterday...ugh), I will keep her supplied with it.

Most handwashing soaps are anti-bacterial...is that considered better than the sanitizer?